my dear cyber-dad-don At 05:11 1998/12/19 -0500, you wrote: >i went to bed at 9pm up at 3am - i could not sleep >over all the stuff on the famly list. all i know is >i want to help PWP'S. i was brought up in a family on >each side that did not want me. then at 19 i met VIVIAN. >i have not slept with or been with any other women. i >was very upset when i got PD. I THOUGHT MY LIFE WAS OVER. >vivian and my church helped me. same church for 61 years. >i do not judge a person on their beliefs - just on how >they treat me. what is being said has me mixed up. >am i doing wrong or right? you always do right cyber-dad-don you and your big fat heart could do nothing less charlie and i are just having a difference of opinion like in any family >all i want to do is to help PWP'S what i have learned from >30 to 40 years of having pd; the school of hard knocks. >RE: JOKES, POEM'S I LIKE. AT TIMES I GET TIRED OF HEARING >NOTHING BUT MED'S, SINCE WHAT ONE TAKES COULD HURT SOME ONE ELSE. >BUT IF IT HELPS YOU TO SAY THIS MED HELPS ME, thats fine >with me. my friends know i've got PD but there are other >things to talk about. absolutely! >i can't travel or visit anyone, unless it is only 1 or 2 steps >to get in their house and the 'reading room' is on the first >floor and i can pull my self up. i do get to go to the >american legion on saturdays for breakfast. my home has an >electric bed, a chair lifer, an electic lift to get to my >basment, all kinds of handicapped things, a telephone with just >a pushbutton to call someone. the lights, the pc, the coffee >machine are all fixed on timers. even the burglar alarm. my coffee >cup is on a hot plate run on a timer. your spirit is indomitable your lesson to me is to show me that mine is too >i am getting awfully mixed up now and i forget a lot. even my pc >when i turn it on puts me straight onto the list, easy, huh? >there are days when i can think like i did when i was young. >it only took me... well, i'm not sure when i started to put in >the sump pumps... they work, but not how i want them to. i'm too >proud to ask for help now, as i was always the one to give advice. >mom says shut down, you know who's the boss! lolo! >bye > I.Y.Q. DON VIVIAN another lesson from you to me: love and laughter will win, hands down, everytime IYQ 2 a whole lot now quit your worrying and catch some shut-eye! sis janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada [log in to unmask]